Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-01
WHERE THE SOLDIERS ARE.

WHERE THE SOLDIERS ARE.
Gen. T. J. Wood lives at Dayton, o.
Gen James a. Wilson lives in Boston.
Gen. Alfred Pleasonton lives in Philadel
phia.
Gen n P. Banks is United States marshal,
Boston.
Gen h J. Hunt is in the service at Wash.
ington-
Gen Don Carlos Buell. is pension agent at
Louisville.
Gen John G. Parke is superintendent OF
West Point
Gen. Alexander S. Webb is president of the
City college.
Gen. John Pope was retired last year as
major general
Gen. Daniel Butterfeld resides in New
York and is a capitalist
Gen. D. NJ Gregg, the cavalryman, is in
regular service.
Gen. W. F. Smith lives in New York and
Is a celebrated engineer.
and is writing books.
Gen. Joseph B. Carr engineers chain cable
mandatory at Troy.
Gen. W. W. Averill, the cavalry leader, is
at home in Bath, n. Y.
Gen. Charles H. Devens is judge of superior
court at Boston.
Gen. Horatio G. Wright is on the retired
list and lives in Washington.
Gen John c. Robinson is on the retired
list and lives in Binghamton.
Gen Wesley Merritt, also gallant cav
airy general, is in regular service.
Gen. John F. Hartranft, ex-governor Of
Pennsylvania, lives at Philadelphia.
Gen. A. V. Kautz, the cavalryman, is in
Nebraska, colonel Of the Eighth infantry.
Gen. William B. Franklin is president of a
manufacturing company at Hartford.
Gen. John C. Fremont is president of a
mining company, with an office on Broad
way, New York.
Gen. George Stoneman, ex-governor of
California, owns large grazing lands in that
state.
Gen. O. B. Wilcox is brigadier general
commanding a department in the Missouri
division.
Gen H. A Barnum practices law in New
York and suffers constantly from severe army
wounds.
Gen. Q. A. Gilmore is in the regular engi-
neer service, and now at army headquarters
in New York.
Gen. J. j. Bartlett, who received Lees
arms at Appomattox, is deputy commissioner
of pensions at Washington.
Gen George Crook is brigadier general u
S. A., commanding the department of the
Platte division of Missouri.
Gen Nelson A Miles is brigadier general
U S. A, commanding department of Arr
iona, div ision Of the Pacific.
Cen Franz Sigel is pension agent for New
York city and vicinity He was a German
soldier who volunteered i'll the war.
Gen O. o. Howard is major general U. S
A, commanding the division of the Pacific
He lost an arm at Fair Oaks.
Gen. John Gibbon is brigadier general U.
S. A., commanding the department of the
Columbia, division of the Pacific
Gen. Abner Doubleday is on the retired list,
and lives at Mendham, \. J. He opened
Sumter rtins on Moultrie in April, 1861.
Gen Alfred II. Terry is major general
commanding the division of Missouri the
central division of the army. He was a vol
unteer soldier, not trained to arms.
Gen. H. W. Slocum lives in Brooklyn and
IS engaged in business enterprises. He was a
graduate in civil life i'll 1861, became major
general of volunteers and resigned in 1866.
Gen. w T. Sherman resides at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York, with private
office in the Army building. He was retired
as general, and that office does not now exist
Gen. ". s. Ro,ecrans is register of the
treasury. He was a West Point man, a
civilian in 1861, and became major general
of volunteers. He resigned his regular COM
mission i'll 1861.
Gen. John Newton is president of the de
partmeut of public works of New York. He
commanded a corps in 1868, is a distinguished
engineer and was placed on the retired list at
his own request.
Gen Daniel F. SiclSles lives on Fifth ave
nue., and Is looking after New Yorks interest
in the Gettysburg memorial work. He was a
civilian in 1861, appointed to the regular
army for distinguished services and placed on
the retired list rs disabled
Gen. Philip Sheridan is lieutenant general
and commander-n-chief under the president.
A special act will be necessary to make him
general He is one of the four leading gen
erals who were in service when the war be-
gan, the others being Meade, Thomas and
Buell..
Gen Fitz John Porter is a New York DO
lice commissioner. He was in service in 1861
and became major general Of volunteers.
The generals story about the Porter case" is
military sensation yet to come. 1t is com
inc. and viii reveal the true inwardness Of
all his treatment at the hands of his oppoSeIs.
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